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Self Conscious All the Time
All of my friends and family tell me that I am beautiful, and so pretty. But when I look in the mirror, I am like.."eww." I can't take it anymore, I feel disgusted at myself. When I first meet people, they go, "wow you are beautiful!" I don't know if they are telling the truth or not. I have had people come up to me and ask if I model. But when I look in the mirror, I just don't see it. I have a boyfriend, he is wonderful, but he never tells me that I am beautiful. I went to a dance with him and he calls me up after and says, "hey, sorry I forgot to say you looked really nice tonight." and well he never said I look pretty or anything. I just don't know what to do. Is there any way to gain confidence on your looks? I am very outgoing..but sometimes I get so self conscious that I feel like I just want to go home and stay in the house. I am pretty popular at my school so I know it isn't a social disorder thing, because I have no problem with making friends. I just am so self conscious. Does anybody know of a way to stop being this way?
-14/F
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no unfortunatly i wish i knew how to make it go away. i am soo self conscious too. whenever i get complaments im always like oh no im not im ugly or im fat. people get annoyed with that. just try not to think about i guess that is all that you really can do. whenever someone gives you a complament just beleve that it is true dont go analzying yourself. just have fun and eventualy you will be happy with yourself <3
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ok first of all i think everyone is self conscious. i have a similar situation to you becuz like even people stop me in the mall to ask me to join their modeling agency (im signed with 1) and people are like can i take your picture and stuff and im 5'5" and 110 lbs. but in real life i feel really fat and ugly but i listen to what people say and i feel so much better so just listen to people who tell you ur beautiful.
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Of course!This is not that difficult as it seems. If you want to try you will do it!!! What happens to you is that you have genarally low self esteem and low self confidence.
Now,1) How to Feel Good When You Need to
Because self confidence and feeling good has a major 'hormonal' element, you can change the way you feel by re-living good times. If you can remember a time you felt really self confident, then excellent - use that! If not, then use a time you felt contented or happy. You could use a photo taken at such a time to remind you. This is just a start but an important one; taking deliberate control of your thoughts and emotions will have a huge impact on your self confidence and other areas of your life.
2) Beating Self Consciousness
Too much self consciousness is the No.1 enemy of self confidence. The trick is keeping your attention off yourself when you need to. Here's how...
a) When you feel self-conscious, (you can usually tell because you start to feel anxious), choose something outside of yourself to focus on and study it in detail. For example: examine a door, look at the different textures and shades of colour, wonder about who made it and how and so on. The important thing is that you're learning how to keep your attention off yourself.
It is a good idea to practise this technique in private first. Just sit quietly, practising focusing firstly on your own thoughts and then deliberately focusing outwards onto a picture or piece of furniture.
b) Social self confidence can be difficult to find sometimes because it is unclear what you are 'supposed to do'. In this event, concentrate on what your purpose in the situation is: whether you're there to...
- find out if you like the other people present
- make others feel comfortable
- find out some information
- make business contacts
- and so on...
It's much more difficult to feel self-conscious if your mind is occupied with a task.
People are often most comfortable with others when working towards a common goal. The common goal of socialising could be making friends, the exchange of mutually beneficial information, expanding your knowledge of different types of people... it could be whatever you want it to be! The key is to have an aim.
3) Watch Out for Undue Criticism - Especially Your Own!
Have you noticed that people will speak to themselves in a way they would never speak to others? You know the sort of thing - you break a glass and it's "You stupid idiot. You can't do anything right can you?"
Criticism that leaves the receiver feeling upset or depressed is rarely useful.
Challenging your own assumptions about yourself and other people can really help build self confidence. Here's a few to get you started:
Those confident-looking people have bad moments too - you just don't get to hear about them!
If you feel under-confident, it doesn't mean other people can tell. They're often too caught up with their 'own stuff' to notice!
If you catch yourself saying things to yourself like "I'm no good at anything" then rest assured, you're wrong about that. Everyone can compose a sentence, get successfully to the store, eat without choking and do a million other things. Negative thinking can make things seem hopeless when they rarely are.
Don't let yourself make sweeping statements about yourself - in the long run it is this sort of thing that can really damage your self image. If this happens, say to yourself calmly and gently, "Hold on a minute, that's not true". If you can come up with some evidence that disproves the sweeping statement, then even better. It may take a bit of effort at first, but the impact on your level of self confidence is huge.
Building self esteem is not just about thinking good of yourself, it's about not thinking bad for no reason!
Just because you have felt bad about yourself in the past doesn't mean you're always going to feel that way. I have seen hundreds of people surprise themselves once they have learned exactly how to build confidence in themselves in such a way that it stays built!
The important thing is to get away from thinking "Why did that happen?" or "Why do I feel this way?" and instead move towards "How would I like to feel?", "In what situations do I feel confident?" or "What do I need to learn in order to have better self confidence in this situation?"
And something else.Try to make other feel good. Give advice or help others. And SMILE! When you feel bad smile! That helps A LOT!
P.S. The above solutions are not mine! So be sure that it works! I hope i helped! Kisses!
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Dear Beautiful,
You have to feel beautiful within yourself to make you beautiful. The most beautiful girls can have bad self-esteem issues and not believe in their true beauty and could look ugly to others because of their low personality. Pick yourself up from off of the groud and feel confident in yourself. Look in the mirror each morning and say to yourself "I am beautiful". It will make you feel confident throughout the day. You have to have it within yourself first to actually play the part. Your beautiful and you know it. Go and show it off.
♥ Miss Moo
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